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} |} ''Corona'' was a 40-gun ''Hortense''-Class frigate of the French Navy. The French built her in 1807 for the Venetian Navy but took her over in 1810. The British captured ''Corona'' at the Battle of Lissa and took her into the Royal Navy as HMS ''Daedalus''. She grounded and sank off Ceylon in 1813 while escorting a convoy. == French Navy == ''Corona'' was initially built in Venice for the Venetian Navy. She was at Venice in 1809. She was transferred to the French Navy in April 1810 and that year was at Ancona. Under Captain Nicola Pasqualigo (or Pasguilogo) she served as part of the French squadron operating in the Adriatic in 1811 under Commodore Bernard Dubourdieu. On 22 October she entered the port of Lissa and there captured several vessels.〔 ''Corona'' was one of the ships that Dubourdieu lost at Lissa on 13 March 1811 during the battle that resulted in his death. ''Corona''s captain was also killed in the battle and in all she lost some 200 men killed and wounded. Following her capture by , a fire destroyed much of ''Corona''s upper works and killed members of her crew and five members of the British prize crew before they could extinguish it. In 1847 the Admiralty authorized the issuance of the Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Lissa" to the still living survivors of the battle. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「French frigate Corona (1807)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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